There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.

Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.

There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The successful one has this over his rivals: he knows where he is going.

You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own.

You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favor is your friend, and that you can do a favor to almost anyone.

The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight.

There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.

At all times it is better to have a method.

A barrier is of ideas, not of things.

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

The failure wishes he could do things he could never do. He thinks little of what he can do.

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.

You know you've written a good book when even the people who hate it admit it's entertaining.

Men must know their limitations.

Ruby in Paradise and the intensity and quality that I was able to experience on Smoke were equally as important to me as working on this movie every day for three-and-a-half months.

But as usual there's no answer to this. As usual, that's just how it is.

You cant write about stuff you dont know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. Live life to be a good songwriter.

They're such different things [Townies and Lonesome Dove]. I certainly love them both. Certainly Lonesome Dove would be way hard now, because, I mean, back then I wasn't married.

My buddy Tom... he'd been chasing a girl for two years, and he got her the old-fashioned way - dates and listening.

Lady Liberty and Sarah Palin are lit by the same torch.

We want someone to bring us the news.